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OPEN FOR DONATING CARDS!!! - Ronald McDonald House Of the Month Swap 2014

NEW AND OPEN: Donate all SWAP---Ronald McDonald House of the Month CARD Swap for 2014

** We had a great turn out in 2013 and would love to continue this great cause into 2014 so hopefully you can join us **

We are trying something a little different. We have 12 “hostesses” who individually donate to one particular Ronald McDonald house. Each month one RMH house will be in the spotlight. That month all of the cards will be sent to that hostess and she in turn will forward the cards to her house at the end of the month or whenever cards are needed.

This swap works in 2 ways. The hostesses are committed to sending 10 cards to each of the other hostesses/houses for the entire year. PLUS for other very generous people who like to donate cards but don’t have the time to help one particular house, you can sign-up and send your cards each month to the hostess.

Each month the hostess of the house will request certain cards, i.e. Thank You, Birthday, Thinking of you..…and the individuals signing up will send 10 cards total to that hostess.

Since you are donating all cards, and they are going to the same house, they do not have to be the same design. i.e.: you can send 10 different cards made with the same design and color scheme, but again, they don't have to "look" alike OR you can just send 10 totally different cards of the type that they Hostess is requesting.

DETAILS:

1. Cards need to use good quality cardstock- HEAVY WEIGHT--- (so the card can stand alone) and include a minimum of two layers and one embellishment.

2. No Welcome Baby Card / Wedding / Sympathy Card as these are not as popular as Birthday/Thinking of You/Thank you/Missing you. You can create cards with no sentiments.

3. IF you use colorful cardstock—please line the inside of the card with either white or vanilla paper so the guests can write in them using black/blue pen.

4. If you place a sentiment inside—repeat the sentiment and place on copy paper so that it can be added inside the back of the sleeve-so the individual can see if there is a “saying” on the inside or it is “blank”

5. If you would like to include envelopes and sleeves it would be greatly appreciated - sleeve IS NOT necessary.

6. REMEMBER you are sending 10 cards and will NOT be getting any back, this is a donate-all swap. No need for return postage, packaging, labels or anything.

7. Please send your cards by the 20th of each month so that the cards can be delivered in a reasonable amount of time.

If you don't have a hosting house, you can help by participating to send cards to the hostess each month, but for those that signed up to be a hostess of the house, please honor your commitment and send to everyone monthly that host a house.

I hope I covered all the information, I am honor to be your new hostess for this swap and if I am missing something or if you have any questions, please let me know.

August 2014: Sandra J. Lewis (Stamp Wizard) of Portland, OR West RMHC, please send BIRTHDAY/THANK YOU & BLANK (Thinking of You, I miss you, Fall Themed Cards and cards with no sentiments - these are her low priority request) to

October 2014: Linda/Seanryan6 Columbia, Mo, please send Halloween/Thanksgiving/TY/Thinking of you/Birthday adult & kids to
Linda Herrick
5727 Shining Day Place
St. Louis MO 63128
**If you are doing to send Halloween cards, please send them in EARLY and NOT end of the month**

Pam, count me in, Martha Knowles-2080 Highway 35 North-Rison, Ar 71665- Little Rock Arkansas Ronald McDonald House. I get mostly requests for kids birthday, thank you and thinking of you cards. I am well stocked with cards right now, so whatever month you want me is ok. Thank you for hosting and I will add this swap to my signature line also.

I am going to just subscribe for now and see how thing go with this RMH here first since I've only done two months with them so far and have the stock coming in from the swaps this month!
When I am able I will send to others, but can't commit monthly just yet. Thanks for providing the opportunity for everyone to do good deeds though!

Good Morning everyone - TY for joining and please kindly help me spread the word! I've updated the address/cards request and such, let me know if there are other cards you want for your house and I will add. I will also post in SU website to see if anyone can join!

I will be heading over to Palo Alto House today and make some Christmas Cards with them. I am also donating lots of supplies that I don't used anymore!!

Good Morning everyone - TY for joining and please kindly help me spread the word! I've updated the address/cards request and such, let me know if there are other cards you want for your house and I will add. I will also post in SU website to see if anyone can join!

I will be heading over to Palo Alto House today and make some Christmas Cards with them. I am also donating lots of supplies that I don't used anymore!!

Anyone else wanna join us for this great cause?!

That is so cool that you are going to make cards with the people at your house!

I am going to post a link on the main rmd thread. Hopefully, some of the others will join us!

I am hoping to get mostly thank you cards, but can always use kids birthday cards or just blank thinking of you cards for my house. The Marshfield house has mostly moms who have premie babies in the hospital.

You can add me for any month--and my address is the same as the last swap. I would like to request--child and adult Birthday's--thinking of you--thank you

Thanks for doing this again!

Thank you!!!! I will go ahead and add you to the list!!

Sorry ladies - my home computer has officially blocked Splitcoastampers's website due to various virus I got from it. I have a feeling my work computer is NOT safe as well so I will limit my time on here

But will try to check from work (M-F) and hopefully weekend from other's computer. So if I am late at adding people, I do apologized.

Sorry ladies - my home computer has officially blocked Splitcoastampers's website due to various virus I got from it. I have a feeling my work computer is NOT safe as well so I will limit my time on here

But will try to check from work (M-F) and hopefully weekend from other's computer. So if I am late at adding people, I do apologized.

do you use Chrome? If so, it is a glitch with tbat. It is not a virus that you got, but a cookie that splitcoast puts on the computer so you don't have to log on each time you visit. It is driving me crazy. I'm talking to my hubby, who is a computer geek, and will let you know what you can do to hopefully get that malware warning to stop popping up. You used to be able to decide if a site was safe, but I guess they don't have that ability anymore.

@ Jane - @ home I used firefox and at work I use IE. Seems like there are virus @ work as well so I've been away today and try not to log on too much. Gotta be careful as the IT guy finally fixed lots of stuff....

@ Jane - @ home I used firefox and at work I use IE. Seems like there are virus @ work as well so I've been away today and try not to log on too much. Gotta be careful as the IT guy finally fixed lots of stuff....

Happy Friday / weekend everyone

I actually contacted Splitcoast, and here is what they sent me. It seems that Chrome is not blocking the site anymore either.

Hi there -Sorry for the scare. The site is safe - you can proceed past the message. A site that used to be in a link in a forum post has been hacked and that is throwing up the alert. There is no malware on our site. It takes time for Google to clear the flag but in the meantime you can use the site as normal.

Lydia
Splitcoaststampers Community Manager"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
Pablo Picasso

I'm happy that Chrome is no longer blocking SCS! It is safe to surf the site again! My hubby ran a complete virus scan on my computer and I had no problems. They said that it was only one link on one thread that caused the entire site to be blocked! I guess that is because you can navigate anywhere once you get on to the site, even if the thread that you were accessing was safe!

I called one of our RMH's in Portland (OR) today and asked about donating some cards. The gal was very happy with my offer so tomorrow (Tuesday) I will drive up there and drop off some of the cards I have collected.

It is interesting that she did not tell me that their House was already supported by Stampin' Up! When I checked our Stampin' Up! demonstrator website, they are reporting that both the Portland houses have an SU! group. I'll check it out some more tomorrow....very strange.

Jane - I will let you know how many I end up giving to the House and which house.

We had snow yesterday, and usually that means a bright sunny day when it is done, but when I woke up, it was pretty grey. BUT, the sun just came out and is shining through my window onto my dining room table where I'm doing some Christmas sewing!

I will be working on these cards sometime after xmas I believe...or maybe during the holiday days....while ds plays on video games I can play with my scissors and tape and stamps --Oh MY!--toys are toys are toys

I was thinking about that--people not joining as hostess and if they just want to send cards onmonthly basis---we can always start over again...if we have a few more---sign up til Jun...then it would be twice a year we send cards to each other...just a thought...